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Open for gardening

May 9, 2009 1 min to read

I managed to get into the garden today. Work and the weather and the kids all lined up to let me get something done. Massive weeding (at least 3 hours …

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Garden of Mess

April 28, 2009 1 min to read

Ah, kids. I love em. They bring me more joy then anything else. But sometimes, they make me go :rant :hide :help :cry :shake :eyeroll :censored The younger boys (almost …

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Today

April 23, 2009 1 min to read

So I haven’t done, uh, anything in the garden, really since I last posted. But things are still happening. We have 6 potatoes already coming up, I was very surprised …

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Things are happening, a tiny bit at a time

April 13, 2009 1 min to read

Transplanting and I are not best of friends. I’m bad about properly hardening off. I can tell anyone how to do it, but when it comes down to it myself, …

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Identify this pumpkin!

September 11, 2008 1 min to read

[image links are broken after several hosting moves, hoping to find backups somewhere] I planted 2 kids of pumpkins, both Burpee, one is a “Prizewinner Hybrid” and the other 2 …

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Painfully obvious lessons

September 3, 2008 1 min to read

More lessons, con’t from this post… Tomato cages. Just suck it up and buy them. Stakes do no good when they have 6 “main” stalks coming up from the ground! …

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Don’t eat the apple in the Garden of Eatin’

August 29, 2008 1 min to read

Bad stuff’ll happen….weeds will take over so badly you can’t catch up and all you can hope for it to clear little areas around the still producing plants so they …

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Gardening

General growy-ness

August 15, 2008 2 min to read

Just a general update on how things are going in the Garden of Eatin’ today. The weeds are taking over. I need to get out there and attack with the …

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It’s the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown

August 5, 2008 0 min to read

[image links are broken after several hosting moves, hoping to find backups somewhere] Or, it will be! I sure wish I could watch this little guy grow up. Then Now: …

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Itty Bitty green pepper and Ginormous zuccs

July 31, 2008 0 min to read

How do you shorten zucchini properly? Zuck? (that sounds like duck) Zook? Maybe, looks alien though. I’ll stick with zucc until I get a professional opinion. Anywho, I bring you: …

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I’m not a heartless pepper killer!

July 28, 2008 1 min to read

Months ago, I started green peppers inside. I transplanted many outside and they survived but I planted them in a bad spot and while alive, they weren’t growing. Instead of …

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The bees and the squashes and the corn

July 27, 2008 1 min to read

Notice: The weeds are taking over. Ignore them and don’t think too badly of me ;) I don’t have enough time to keep them in check lately! I’ve noticed a …

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